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pshankland

05-18-2006 11:39 AM

Adding seconds to `date +%s` ?

Am sure this is a simple one but...

I am getting the date and time value back by using `date +%s` but I need to add 7200 seconds to this (2 hours), how can I do this?

Code:

start_time=`date +%s`

duration=7200

end_time=$start_time <something here> $duration

Thanks.

alunduil

05-18-2006 11:56 AM

Code:

start_time=$(date +%s)

let " finish_time = 7200 + start_time "

echo ${finish_time}

That is how I would do it.

Regards,

Alunduil

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